President Yoon's first public forum with the People

Yoon held the first public livelihood debate with the people at the Small and Medium Business Human Resources Development Center in Yongin, Gyeonggi-do on January 4th. Gyeonggi-do, where the discussion was held, is expected to be home to the world's largest semiconductor cluster in the future and is an outpost for high-tech industries. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Strategy and Finance Choi Sang-mok presented measures to stabilize the people's livelihood, ease the burden on small business owners, revitalize domestic demand, ease regulations, and structural reform to restore the people's economy. He decided to provide a budget of 11 trillion won to stabilize prices of agricultural, marine products and energy in order to stabilize prices in the 2% range in the first half of this year.

He decided to reduce the burden of electricity bills, interest costs, and taxes for small business owners and the self-employed, and to pursue population reduction efforts such as incentives for home purchase, revitalization of tourism, and promotion of the inflow of foreigners. During the discussion, Yoon took careful notes and listened, sympathizing with the difficulties faced by the people and the economic policies needed for Korea. He emphasized that the speed of policy is important and that the government must act to solve problems, and ordered department officials to visit the site, listen to the problem, and resolve it immediately.

Yoon attends the 2024 securities and derivatives market opening ceremony

Yoon attended the 2024 securities and derivatives market opening ceremony held at the Korea Exchange building on January 2. In his remarks, he said that the stock market is a place where people and companies grow together, and that the financial investment sector should be revitalized to prevent class stagnation and increase the dynamism of society. South Korea has many world-class companies with global competitiveness, but its stock market is very undervalued, he said, emphasizing that the regulatory overhaul will eliminate the "Korea discount. He said he plans to prepare short-selling reform plans on schedule, push for the abolition of the financial investment income tax, positively consider revising the Commercial Code to enhance the interests of minority shareholders, and significantly expand programs to help people build wealth, such as ISAs.